[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Why does mplayer no longer play Car Talk?



On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 12:48:40PM +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
> I used to use mplayer from the console successfully to 
> listen to the Car Talk radio show.
> http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/online.html
> 
> As shown below, it now fails with a missing codec ...

Works fine here:




Clip info:
 name: Car Talk 0444-Segment 1
 author: Car Talk
 copyright: (C) 2004 Dewey Cheetham and Howe
==========================================================================
Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...
Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder
opening shared obj '/usr/lib/win32/cook.so.6.0'
Audio codec: [7] 32 Kbps Voice
Audio bitrate: 32.041 kbit/s (4005 bps)  
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 1 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 4005->44100 (32.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [racook] afm:realaud (RealAudio COOK)
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 22050Hz/1ch/16bit -> 22050Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 1 ch, 22050 hz, little endian signed int 
AF_pre: 22050Hz 1ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
alsa-init: got device=0, subdevice=0
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
alsa: 22050 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/65536 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little
Endian
AO: [alsa] 22050Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 22050Hz/1ch/16bit -> 22050Hz/2ch/16bit...
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:         3.5  1.1% 18%   




I use mplayer's "-ao pcm" option to record the show off their stream and
listen to it in my car.

I have mplayer version 1.0pre5-3.3.4.  Hm ... did you download the Windows
codecs?
--      
Carl Fink             carl@fink.to
Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading
http://www.jabootu.com



Reply to: